Public Speaking

Robert Schultz is available for readings and for talks on literary and cultural topics.

Speaking topics include fiction readings; poetry readings; nonfiction readings; and slide talks drawn from We Were Pirates: a Torpedoman’s Pacific War, including “The Battle of Midway” and “Peril and the Navy Cross.”

Speaking topics include

Fiction readings

Poetry readings

Nonfiction readings

The Battle of Midway, a slide talk drawn from We Were Pirates: A Torpedoman’s Pacific War

Peril and the Navy Cross, a slide talk drawn from We Were Pirates, treating a near-fatal 17-hour depth-charging survived by the U.S.S. Tambor in the East China Sea

“When Men Look at Women,” a slide lecture on feminist “male gaze” theory

Art and Literature-gallery talks on relations between the visual arts and literature

Lectures: “War Memoranda: the Civil War, Walt Whitman, and Renewal,” with Binh Danh at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; “When Men Look at Women”: University of Pennsylvania ; Luther College ; Virginia Foundation for the Humanities and Public Policy; University of Richmond, Richmond, Virginia Gallery Talk: “Conversations in the Gallery,” Art Museum of Southwestern Virginia, Roanoke, VA.